[LAU] phasex-0.12.0-beta4

[Ken Restivo]

On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 02:44:24AM -0700, William Weston wrote:
> Greetings,
> 
> Thank you for all your great feedback on the last two betas! 
> phasex-0.12.0-beta4 addresses all of the concerns brought up so far:
> 
> Velocity:  Many of you have noticed that velocity and aftertouch 
> were completely unsupported.  Now, velocity (with aftertouch) can be 
> mapped to directly to oscillators and LFOs (by setting the source), 
> used as a modulation source (adjust volume w/ AM or pitch w/ FM), or 
> mapped to the filter in the filter-lfo section.
> 
> GUI:  Some of you mentioned that the colors were too dark with too 
> little contrast, so now there are four GTK theme options:  Dark 
> (original purple background), Light (orange background), System (use 
> the system GTK theme), and Custom (choose any gtkrc file for your 
> theme).  There have also been issues with getting phasex to fit on 
> small screens (usually netbooks).  The knob images have been trimmed 
> down vertically (just blank pixels), and the padding between widgets
> has been almost completely cut out.  The font can be selected in the 
> preferences.  Additionally, a true fullscreen mode has been added. 
> It is now possible to fit phasex into an 800x600 desktop.
> 
> Atom processors:  Compiler optimization flags for the Intel Atom 
> processors have been added to the build system.  Run './configure 
> --enable-arch=atom' to build for the Atom.  To force 32- or 64-bit 
> builds, use 'atom32' or 'atom64'.

It built quickly and easily with that flag on my EEE.

> 
> The rest is just small tweaks and bugfixes, such as fixing the 
> segfault on quit issue, fixing all the compiler warnings, minor 
> updates to the build system, new menu items, etc.
> 
> As I don't have access to a netbook right now, please let me know 
> how it works out with the Atom or other low-power CPU, or on any 
> machine with a screen smaller than 1024x768.  Of course, feedback 
> from the rest of you is highly welcome, too  ;-}
>

Many of my old patches break up and create Xruns on my little 1.6Ghz EEE. A few of them work fine though.

The new layout and look-and-feel is much better for a netbook. Everything fits on the screen now, much nicer.

> Visit http://sysex.net/phasex/beta for source tarball, Fedora 11 
> RPMS, or Fedora 8 RPMS.


Thanks!

I played around with it for a few minutes, and made this little sketch:

http://www.archive.org/download/KenRestivoArchivePart2/padmix.ogg

Great synth, fun to play with, and really easy to come up with interesting sounds using it.

Thanks again for writing and maintaining it!

-ken